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Among the electoral blocs a politician has to worry about, voters stuck in outer space do not make for a very big constituency -- not yet, anyway. But if and when they do, they will add vast new complexities to the concept of a get-out-the-vote...

After a punishing four months aboard the Russian space station Mir, John Blaha returned to Earth today and instead of playing the hero, he allowed himself to be carried off the shuttle Atlantis on a stretcher. It was the first time an astronaut...

John E. Blaha, the astronaut who spent four months on the Russian space station Mir, said today that he got depressed after a few weeks there and that his stay would have been easier if he had had private quarters and a fellow American on board. ...

His four-month space odyssey almost over, the astronaut John E. Blaha took one last treadmill run in orbit today. The successful test of the vibration-free exercise device headed off an extension of the shuttle's mission. The space shuttle...

In space, one cannot just roll down the window and toss things out. That is why Russia's 11-year-old Mir space station has come to resemble the cluttered glove box of an old car. After a four-month stay aboard the Mir, the American astronaut John...

January 17, 1997, Friday

The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir began five days of joint operations today as the American astronaut John E. Blaha got ready to return home after four months on the Russian craft. Atlantis and Mir are linked, forming a...

The space shuttle Atlantis caught and docked with the Russian Mir space station tonight after a three-day chase across the sky. The shuttle commander, Capt. Michael A. Baker of the Navy, used flight controls at the rear deck of Atlantis to slowly...

In a celestial chase around the Earth, the space shuttle Atlantis dashed across the skies today, pursuing the Russian Mir space station for a rendezvous and linkup. Atlantis, with a crew of six, blasted into chilly, pre-dawn skies today on flaming...

A lot of Americans come up with lame excuses for not going to the polls on Election Day. But not John E. Blaha: his problem is that he is stuck in space. The astronaut, who is in the midst of a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russian space...

October 25, 1996, Friday

John E. Blaha Mission Commander Colonel Blaha, a 48-year-old Air Force pilot, made his first trip into space two years ago as pilot of the shuttle Discovery. After receiving his pilot's wings in 1967, he completed over 360 combat missions in...